I noticed a lot of young Russian women hate alcohol, and demand that I stop drinking.
But#18, never saying please, or thank you? I think that is wrong. Any compliment is always returned with a spacibo, always!

As far as I know, they never say “thank you” to their friends, because they are confident their friends realise they are very grateful for the favour. If somebody can confirm this… you know what to do.

It’s not a big problem in everyday life but on the party you may insult em a little. They will think that you are staying sober on purpose. That you don’t believe them, don’t like them or even mean harm to them. Some kind of medieval tradition I believe.

That is very enlightening. Some sound strange, but every culture has things that seem strange to outsiders. I think it is good that you are objective enough to come up with such a list. I could not make a list of 50 things.

Some of them are huge with aureolas to match. Many Russian or Eastern European women are very pretty, some are absolutely gorgeous. But most seem to me to be sadly lacking in the ‘class’ department.’ Many/most I’ve met tend to look a bit on the ‘coarse’ side. Lips too big, cheek bones too pronounced. Some refer to these as Europes’ White niggers!’

…this “awesome economy” make a lot of russians to become immigrants with first ocassion they have. I never heard about any european who want to become russian citizen… I’m wondering why if the economy and people are so great?

I don’t know about you, but whenever the news gets to the economic part, I always hear about the “European” or “Eurozone” crisis, not the Russian crisis. I don’t think the gas pipes have direction indicators, but the gas flows from Russian to the EU, not the other way round. And of course you don’t hear about anyone wanting to become a Russian citizen. There are 15 million immigrants (mostly illegal) in Russia seeking US citizenship. I think you just can’t accept the fact that Russia is riding out this crisis better than most.

I’m confused – is this supposed to be a list of what foreign people actually THINK Russians do, or a list of what they (the Russians) actually do that surprises foreigners when they (the foreigners) find out? Because it seems to me to be a mix of both. My Girlfriend is from Ulan-Ude and confirmed some as true, but many as false – many I’ve never heard anyone say about Russians – and we have a lot of stereotyping in NZ.

Zonda, untill 1991, when USSR crashes, there is no country called Ukrain. Never ever was. But then was “Kiyevskaya Rus` “, ancient Russian kingdom (X-XIII century), with capital in Kiyiv, and its borders concur with borders of modern Russia, except Ukranian territory. Learn Wiki

Most of TV info about Ukrainian-Russian hate is originally based on neo-nazi ideas of fanatics in some west-ukranian Cities, and their fresh reappraisal of history of civil war in Russia (when Lenin comes to management ;). Dont know who interested in this tv reports, but i think global politic movement somewhere not far…

this year i had traveled through Ukranian plains to Crimea, and when i came to Sevastopol (main russian black sea fleet base on Ukranian side), that was funny to see much of stickers on cars with phrase “The port of registry – Sevastopol, Russia”. 99% of locals identifying themselves as Russians.

Nation status does not matter. the Ukrainian people exist and have their own cultural identity that is their own, however much Russians might want to deny they exist as a people, that they are just Russians too.

Being Russian i can say that:
True:1,2,3,6 (And what?It is a POLITE compellation which is used for all unknown women from 18-35),7,8,9,13,14,15,16,17,19(partially),21(Just can only say that young people drink less alcohol that 10 y.a.),23(Well sometimes it can be -25-30 in Moscow and in 2 weeks +10),25,26,33,34,36,40 (I dont drink alcohol whatsoever and on occasion people like “wtf man?Why dont u respect me?” ..that’s so silly),44,46,47(but not all life, usually young people move out in their 30’s),48,49(VERY TRUE),50
False:4(but true for people from the government),5,10,12(if it is a party of old people probably true),18(utter rubbish),20,27,28(rubbish),29 (in prisons it’s true),30(wtf),31(wtfwtf),32(rubbish),35,37,38,39,41,42,45,

i think 35 is about gastarbeiters here… from Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. They was coming here to work in a building sphere, often as illegals, cause average income in their country in a month is less than !50 bucks, and Russia haven`t any visas for that contry`s citizens. In Moscow they got about 350$ and can support their familys… also, illegals here make a lot of crime.
Especially Caucasians, they mostly agressive in communicating and in buisness, russians call them “beasts”, cause they have no morals, and often in a fist fights on the streets use knives… ((
Its pity, but some of them make real money in 90s` with this tactic, so when their kids (beasts, also) murder someone on the steets they give a bride to cops or judges, and nothing happens

Yes, and we really want to belong to Europe, mostly because of visas. For example me and my friends want to run on motorbikes to London next summer. We want visit ACE cafe and trip over the Europe… and it seems we will have a lot bureaucracy problems with visas, cause we plan to cross the borders, but dont know in which sequence, but this is necessary for getting visas…

And you think it is easy to travel in Russia? I’ve been waiting for my first invitation, thanks FMS, 5 weeks. After my arrival i have to go immediately to the post-office and fill out two doubleside forms in russian language, copy my passport once again, and waste 2 hours for that

№33 is also true about Saint-Petersburg Metro, but without №7. So, Saint-Petersburg Metro is the best in the world №20 is true. I can’t say about № 29, but it is normal to drink tea with 2-3 teaspoons of sugar. Is it normal in Europe and USA?

Borsch there 20-30 species, including Lithuanian. At that time, when there were soup, dumplings and so on. Russian, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarus were just one nation without divisions and they lived in Kievan Rus. It would therefore be a mistake to attribute these dishes any one split of the ancient ethnic group. And the best borsch – Moscow, he is on the beet kvass.
And in general, everything is quite true. But we should not forget that Russia is larger than Pluto, and it is home to hundreds of peoples with their own features, way of life and customs. Written entirely true for a small group of Moscow residents, except for a couple of items suitable almost all Muscovites, and then the differences will only grow.
I once read, went and tried on a specially – sugar in a glass of exactly 9 mm.